Trucks carrying humanitarian aid began moving ashore into Gaza Friday using a temporary pier built by the United States, delivering desperately needed supplies to the besieged Palestinian enclave.
The floating dock is part of a makeshift effort to stave off a possible famine in Gaza, where Israel’s military assault has shut off a number of crossings that are crucial for supplies of food, fuel and other aid.
Israeli forces pressed on with sweeping operations against Hamas in the north and south of the enclave, while the country’s lawyers defended its ground offensive in Rafah at the United Nations’ top court.
The aid trucks began moving into Gaza at around 9 a.m. local time (2 a.m. ET), the U.S. Central Command said in a post on X, a day after the military finished installing the pier.
“No U.S. troops went ashore in Gaza,” CENTCOM said. “This is an ongoing, multinational effort to deliver additional aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza via a maritime corridor that is entirely humanitarian in nature,” it added, noting that aid was being donated by a number of countries and humanitarian organizations.
Britain said that its aid was among that delivered via the pier.
“UK aid has been successfully delivered to the Gaza shore today, in the first delivery across the US-built temporary pier. The first of 8,400 shelter coverage kits — temporary shelters made up of plastic sheeting — have arrived in Gaza, alongside aid from the US and UAE,” the U.K. government said in a statement, adding that more aid would follow in the coming weeks.
The Rafah crossing, the main entry point for aid into Gaza, has been shut for nearly two weeks after Israeli forces seized the Palestinian side as part of a ground assault that has seen them push deeper into eastern Rafah and force hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to evacuate the city once designated a “safe zone.”
There was a ceasefire until 7 October, when Hamas terrorists crossed Israel’s border and slaughtered hundreds of people, including babies. Israel should flatten every square inch of Gaza and all the muzzies in it.
The US should not give aid to any group or ‘culture’ that practices an extremist ideology masquerading as a “religion”.
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